Mayor Adams Pronounces “Good Clean Fun” Initiative Throughout Climate Week to Make New York City Events Extra Sustainable

NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams at the moment marked Climate Week by asserting the launch of “Good Clean Fun,” a citywide initiative to make New York City’s 1000’s of public occasions extra environmentally sustainable. Good Clean Fun gives sensible steering and sources to scale back waste, reduce emissions, and defend public areas with out sacrificing the power that makes New York City’s occasions iconic.

The pointers have been developed primarily based on enter from the New York City Mayor’s Office of Citywide Event Coordination and Management (CECM), metropolis businesses, and varied main occasion producers.

From avenue festivals to main live shows to cultural parades and extra, New York City hosts 1000’s of occasions every year that draw hundreds of thousands of attendees, and generate vital carbon emissions and landfill waste. Good Clean Fun gives a brand new path ahead, serving to occasion organizers make smarter, greener selections round power, transportation, meals, supplies, and waste. If each main New York City occasion adopted these practices, town might divert 1000’s of tons of waste and reduce hundreds of thousands of kilos of carbon emissions every year.

“New Yorkers know how to have a good time and now we’re making sure it is not as harmful to our environment,” stated Mayor Adams. “With ‘Good Clean Fun,’ we’re turning down the carbon emissions and turning up climate consciousness. We are making it easier for event producers to reduce their carbon footprint, meet our city’s climate goals, and keep the parties going for generations to come.”

The Good Clean Fun sustainable occasion pointers embrace:

• A sustainable occasion guidelines protecting planning, meals and beverage, waste, power, transportation, and venue choice.
• Templates for waste and power plans to assist monitor and measure impression.
• Sample sustainability commitments to align distributors with sustainability requirements.
• Resources from associate businesses, together with the New York City Department of Sanitation’s donateNYC platform.
• A metrics tracker to assist occasion producers measure impression of waste diversion, power use, and emissions.

Good Clean Fun builds on New York City’s “PlaNYC: Getting Sustainability Done” local weather objectives, together with defending New Yorkers from local weather threats, bettering high quality of life, and constructing the inexperienced financial engine. The Adams administration continues to concentrate on reducing greenhouse fuel emissions, particularly from giant buildings by the Local Law 97 mandate. The implementation of this regulation goals to considerably cut back carbon emissions from giant buildings, focusing on almost 6 million tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent emissions by 2030.

“It’s an honor for Global Citizen to contribute to the ‘Good Clean Fun’ sustainable event guidelines,” stated David Beame, vp, world occasions and experiences, Global Citizen. “Over the past 13 years, we have developed all aspects of the Global Citizen Festival — from production to catering — by employing battery power and carbon offsetting to become the most sustainable music festival in New York City. Working with incredible partners across many industries to harness best practices and innovate toward an ever-shrinking carbon footprint has been a high priority from the start of our movement to end extreme poverty and defend the planet, and we’re proud to share our learnings with music festivals across the city and the world.”

“Kudos to Mayor Adams and CECM for launching such an important initiative. Event producers of all sizes will benefit from the guidelines put forth in ‘Good Clean Fun,’” stated Tom Russell, co-founder, Governor’s Ball Music Festival. “We applaud everyone involved for working collaboratively and creatively toward a more sustainable city.”

“As a global championship that’s redefining our sport, SailGP is underpinned by purpose, always racing for a better sport and planet,” stated Fiona Morgan, chief goal officer, SailGP. “We are therefore excited to support New York’s citywide ‘Good Clean Fun’ initiative, having contributed our best practices and expertise to support the development of the guidelines to help other event organizers make smarter and greener choices.”

“At New York Road Runners, sustainability isn’t just a goal, it’s a responsibility we embrace with every event we produce,” stated Rob Simmelkjaer, CEO, New York Road Runners. “Year-round, we collaborate with vendors and our city agency partners to be environmentally conscious and leave New York City’s streets and parks cleaner than we found them. We’re proud to contribute to the ‘Good Clean Fun’ initiative and share best practices to ensure all New York City events are not only world-class but also sustainable.”

“We’re thrilled to be part of the New York City mayor’s office ‘Good Clean Fun’ program. Special events are a defining part of New York City’s culture and identity, and this program gives us the opportunity to make them greener, smarter and more responsible,” stated Amir Shayegan, associate and government vp, allowing and logistics, IDEKO.

“Usually, when someone tells us to clean up after ourselves, it’s because we’ve left behind confetti, pizza boxes, or the occasional traffic cone. This time, it’s about building a real path toward sustainability in events — and we couldn’t be more excited to roll up our sleeves to make it happen. Big thanks to the New York City mayor’s office for letting us be part of the fun.”

“We are honored to share our event experiences and wisdom with the City of New York in order to increase our industry’s sustainability practices,” stated Robert Barwick, president, Barwick Marketing & Events Group.

“Cities across the world are creating innovative and exciting ways to reduce trash, keep public spaces clean and reduce emissions,” stated Kate Johnson, regional director, North America, C40 Cities. “New York City’s new event guidelines demonstrate how local governments can push progress forward — ensuring world-class, high-quality events that help sustain our world.”

“The Good Clean Fun initiative demonstrates that New York City’s leadership in sustainability goes hand in hand with being an iconic destination to host events,” stated Victoria Cerullo, director of city engagement, New York Climate Exchange. “This Climate Week NYC, the New York Climate Exchange supports the city’s efforts to cut emissions and waste from events by launching guidelines that help event producers take action for a cleaner, more sustainable city. We look forward to sharing this solution with other global cities.”

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